SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492015-08-02T16:29:49-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsEvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:6c804458-9fdf-6c2e-82e5-9b3d5f1dc9fc2013-04-23T13:57:08-06:00<p>I have 15 PCBs with no parts. If you email me your address and how many you need, I&rsquo;ll send them to you free of charge.</p>
<p>You can find my email address <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/users/154228" rel="nofollow" >here</a>.</p>Customer #102896 on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999Customer #102896urn:uuid:f1d1c130-08ab-7cc1-42da-a46f59e78b2e2013-04-23T09:16:17-06:00<p>axla, we just purchased one of these sensors and need a breakout board. Any chance that you have some left?</p>Willus on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999Willusurn:uuid:9557be0f-882c-93bb-bb78-09236166f8d92013-03-05T20:45:02-07:00<p>I was wondering if anyone knew the smallest size object that this could detect the color of or discern. In other words, if I have a series of lines with different colors, how thin can these lines be and still be detected?</p>rajesh on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999rajeshurn:uuid:8bb8874f-5b83-1a6b-b320-3baff928905d2011-10-05T09:09:40-06:00<p>This chip looks really great.<br/>
I am planning on using it on an ambilight project i have in my mind. No processing or using a PC. Take 4 of these sensors, mount them at the edges of the screen, use their outputs to average out the colors.<br/>
Problem is the chip being a BGA. I have never soldered any SMD chip smaller than an SOIC.<br/>
The breakboard is great. However the sensor is right smack at the center of the board. I was wondering Sparkfun, if you are planning on releasing any breakboard where the sensor is mounted at the edge of the board. This way it can be used on the monitor&rsquo;s bezel.</p>Eran2 on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999Eran2urn:uuid:f47d6b5a-0495-875d-50c8-3a6501fdb3ba2011-09-11T02:58:32-06:00<p>Any chance buying 2-3 boards from you asap?<br/>
If so, my email is -<br/>
erangalor (at) yahoo (dot) com</p>Madbodger on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999Madbodgerurn:uuid:a75cc9bd-a800-a462-e99c-34230a1449382011-08-27T09:50:21-06:00<p>I <a href="http://www.vitriol.com/images/tech/microphotography/CR999.jpg" rel="nofollow" >took a microphotograph</a> of the sensor portion of the chip. It&rsquo;s pretty.</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:b63b12a2-c756-ce57-46e9-1443be874cdb2011-08-15T22:54:06-06:00<p>Yeah, sorry about the long delay. The new version of the board works great. I&rsquo;m going to contact sparkfun in a bit and see if they&rsquo;ll sell it.</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:e744204f-189e-e948-2502-c1c746d6b7062011-08-15T22:46:10-06:00<p>Sorry I&rsquo;ve been so slow on this. I&rsquo;m most likely going to sell them on ebay. I&rsquo;ll keep you updated through the comments.</p>EvilTwin on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvilTwinurn:uuid:c8f85d63-e2ea-8cee-f13e-1fea157895282011-08-10T19:38:56-06:00<p>Any kind of update on this?</p>Eecher on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999Eecherurn:uuid:0b7f4198-1975-2972-12e7-e84b1afa1c5f2011-07-29T10:43:20-06:00<p>I&rsquo;m desperate for at least two of these boards, too. Where/how can I get updated when they&rsquo;re available?</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:1a61c09d-6ce9-6566-75a7-d813ff8d92dc2011-07-19T20:06:23-06:00<p>Your sales department must have lied to me.</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:f2ff748d-f349-7588-bfe5-773e309b8ce42011-07-12T11:56:55-06:00<p>I finally received what I believe will be the final version of the board. A picture can be found on <a href="http://flic.kr/p/a2RT5R" rel="nofollow" >my Flickr</a>.</p>tag hag on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999tag hagurn:uuid:478cd834-cd8c-7bbe-fb67-3155cd9a4eed2011-06-20T01:26:47-06:00<p>i&rsquo;m also interested in your breakout board for this, paradoxial!</p>fub on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999fuburn:uuid:afac1ffa-95a6-f2fd-ec13-bcbf27f83f082011-06-16T14:24:04-06:00<p>Keep us posted! I could use this breakout board too.</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:3bb8b9fa-b70b-a4c8-4955-42a0aa405e8a2011-06-03T14:58:06-06:00<p>I will be receiving the next prototype soon, which should be the final working version.</p>EvilTwin on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvilTwinurn:uuid:2d533abf-69df-7aa8-7d2e-ce1ce380dce92011-06-01T19:08:55-06:00<p>Any update on a break-out board? I really can&rsquo;t solder this thing myself, and the toy/game I am working on with the old sensor, needs a replacement sensor. Any news?</p>RobertC. on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999RobertC.urn:uuid:f6945bf1-7c3a-447e-6900-c48bac408f7a2011-05-31T10:50:15-06:00<p>No, we aren&rsquo;t making a board for this.</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:2b5f2f41-e7c4-c125-683e-b4bfd8dc515b2011-05-06T09:03:08-06:00<p>I think they might be making their own version of the board.</p>roycohen2013 on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999roycohen2013urn:uuid:bb2db211-7159-f242-4633-9639a8ebb43f2011-05-01T10:59:59-06:00<p>so wait will sparkfun be selling this board eventualy</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:712e6df3-0452-3e44-0055-2b61dfca99dd2011-04-28T18:52:12-06:00<p>I am currently waiting on a few prototypes before I begin producing them. The designs are open source, but I am also going to be selling the board for about $5 Unpopulated and about $15-25 Populated.<br/>
All versions can be found on <a href="http://code.google.com/p/eaglelbr/" rel="nofollow" >eaglelbr</a>. The current version is 5.0.<br/>
You can email me at the email on my SparkFun account and the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/eaglelbr/" rel="nofollow" >eaglelbr page</a> for more information.</p>BlueFusion on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999BlueFusionurn:uuid:01453f8d-ac7c-a90f-ad05-4c5d9bc02dab2011-04-28T10:13:09-06:00<p>I really need this little bugger and I&rsquo;ve been trying to avoid having to produce and solder a breakout myself for ages. How are you going with the breakout? :)</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:f67329fa-fc23-8dd1-2181-a168c3bed1e92011-04-23T08:54:36-06:00<p>It&rsquo;s not just you. That happens when they put a product that is no longer sold in the related products.</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:6f599fe9-5c5e-d2c5-43ce-c9e44744f3ee2011-04-23T00:28:41-06:00<p>It&rsquo;s just like a normal circuit board, except in 3D.</p>billiam2536 on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999billiam2536urn:uuid:eccfe61c-91ce-c09d-6979-db9ccc0fb0742011-04-22T17:27:21-06:00<p>Am I the only one that can&rsquo;t see the break out board in the related products? It says there are 2 products but only the light intensity to frequency ic is visible&hellip;</p>rfordh on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999rfordhurn:uuid:4b23d895-c1b6-2fc2-d513-8c1a0ea741492011-04-22T12:34:51-06:00<p>It looks to me like the only real difference between this and the old color sensor (ADJD-S371) is that the old one had a built in LED. With this one, you&rsquo;ll have to illuminate the object with your own light source.</p>jbeale on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999jbealeurn:uuid:ce57ba0a-6dbf-e33a-c18a-1e95ad615d2b2011-04-22T11:59:27-06:00<p>Looking at the image of the underside of the part with the solder balls, the balls appear to be resting on a miniature green PCB-like substrate with copper (?) traces that actually wrap around the chamfered edge of the board to reach the other side. Anyone know if (1) that is the case and if so (2) how do they manufacture that?</p>RobertC. on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999RobertC.urn:uuid:7199181f-703f-92f7-d119-9b902bd5b2b22011-04-22T09:55:27-06:00<p>We started doing business without any fancy equipment. It is possible to use without specialized stuff. Bill is right, a hot plate could get the job done. Thanks to Paradoxial for creating (possibly?) a breakout for it.</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:691bddf3-8fd0-862e-469d-126d4b1329502011-04-22T09:30:30-06:00<p>The board is coming along pretty well. I have etched the first version of the board and assembled it with all of the parts minus the color sensor. It passed all of my tests so I am going to get the latest version of the board professionally manufactured and test it with the color sensor.</p>IllogicGate on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999IllogicGateurn:uuid:2ff3bfd5-b505-90c6-73e1-ea97102e5b3f2011-04-22T09:04:30-06:00<p>It&rsquo;s called&hellip; Using a $20 Hot Plate from Target for Reflow.</p>EvanTeitelman on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999EvanTeitelmanurn:uuid:a2af7c45-762d-298d-08a1-d9d5416d51ee2011-04-22T08:27:11-06:00<p>I could design a breakout board for you guys.</p>Customer #42616 on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999Customer #42616urn:uuid:e82435c7-136e-94af-797b-8d5e3d85e42b2011-04-21T19:59:32-06:00<p>Kinda a waste of offering this as a BGA even if it was leaded 2mm is smaller package than most could handle, adding BGA means no one should buy this.</p>RobertC. on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999RobertC.urn:uuid:72148b4f-affd-c027-9e88-f8d011d8b4772011-04-21T15:41:39-06:00<p>They are a different package. The other one was EOL&rsquo;d, so we got this. But we aren&rsquo;t going to redo the breakout board, so it&rsquo;s all up to you guys.</p>Camalaio_ on SEN-10656 - Color Light Sensor - Avago ADJD-S311-CR999Camalaio_urn:uuid:e257973f-86d8-97ce-b51e-d544553c9bab2011-04-21T15:35:18-06:00<p>Ball grid soldering? I believe that&rsquo;s a new one for SFE?<br/>
Anyhow, I have a feeling people will want this breakout-boarded.<br/>
(Edit: Anyone know the differences, if any, between this sensor (S311) and the one on the eval board below (S371)?)<br/>
EDIT2: The BOB of the old sensor is no longer in &ldquo;Related Products&rdquo; due to discontinuation.</p>